AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Taliban-led insurgency incurred a loss of almost 1 billion Afghanis on monthly basis as the group intensified attacks across the country in the past two months, officials said Saturday. Deputy presidential spokesman Shah Hussain Murtazvi said that the group has so far this year incurred a …
Read More »Qadir warns: ‘IS to establish Khurasan Caliphate if seize Tora Bora’
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Deputy Speaker of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament), Zahir Qadir on Saturday, warned that the loyalists to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group will establish the Khurasan Caliphate if they manage to seize Tora Bora, known locally as Spīn Ghar, a cave complex, part …
Read More »MAIL releases 50,000 fish in Salma dam
AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) on Saturday said that it has thrown 50,000 Common Carp, Grass Carp fish in Salma dam in a bid to generate fishing in the western Heart province. Purchase and transferring of mentioned fishes to Salma dam cost Afs 1.5 million, funded …
Read More »Former Wardak police chief arrested on alleged affairs with Taliban
AT-KABUL: Khalil Andarabi, former Wardak Police chief, has been arrested on charges of collaborating with the Taliban while on his way to Turkey from Mazar-i-Sharif airport, local officials said Saturday. Balkh security officials said that Andarabi wanted to escape but was stopped by airport officials last Sunday. “Andarabi was officially …
Read More »Editorial: Fuel prices are getting high ahead of winter
Like the past years the prices of fuel have already getting high while there are two months to winter. People generally use firewood, coal, gas and oil to heat their houses, shops and offices. The firewood and coal are provided from domestic forests and mines, but we have to import …
Read More »84 insurgents killed in raids
AT-KABUL: At least 84 insurgents including 27 Daesh terrorists were killed and 36 others wounded in different operations launched by the security forces within the past 24 hours across the county, security officials said on Saturday. The national army with the cooperation of the national police and the national directorate …
Read More »Karzai praise Zakhilwal for efforts to set free Sharbat Gula
AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai has praised Omar Zakhilwal, the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, for his efforts to release Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee woman arrested a few days ago by Pakistani police on the charge of having fake documents. Karzai termed Sharbat Gula as a symbol of beauty, struggle …
Read More »Choose right way, otherwise people seek alternative: Massoud warns NUG
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A top government official called on the leaders of the National Unity Government (NUG) to choose the right way, otherwise, the people would seek an alternative to the NUG. Ahmad Zia Massoud, the president’s special representative on reforms and good governance during his visit to Estalif district …
Read More »IS emerges underlining NATO’s presence in Afghanistan: Stoltenberg
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the presence of militants loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is underlining the importance of the NATO in Afghanistan. “NATO contributes to the fight against ISIL and terrorism in many different ways. All NATO …
Read More »Editorial: Afghans need unity more than any other time
The disagreement among the senior authorities has made people concerned of their present and future life as they see their leaders verbally confronting each other. Though, differences and disagreements have a long history and were actually born among the jihadi leaders on running the government after they entered Kabul by …
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